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  2. Banner Marsh State Fish and Wildlife Area - Wikipedia

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    From 1910 to 1958, the former bottomland lake and marsh were leveed and drained for farming. [1] From the late 1880s to the mid-1980s, approximately 90% of the site was strip-mined for coal. [2] [3] [4] The Illinois Department of Natural Resources purchased the land in the 1980s. [5]

  3. Rice-fish system - Wikipedia

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    Rice and tilapia fish polyculture, Java. A rice-fish system is a rice polyculture, a practice that integrates rice agriculture with aquaculture, most commonly with freshwater fish. It is based on a mutually beneficial relationship between rice and fish in the same agroecosystem.

  4. Fish farming - Wikipedia

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    Fish farming or pisciculture involves commercial breeding of fish, most often for food, in fish tanks or artificial enclosures such as fish ponds. It is a particular type of aquaculture , which is the controlled cultivation and harvesting of aquatic animals such as fish, crustaceans , molluscs and so on, in natural or pseudo-natural environments.

  5. Recirculating aquaculture system - Wikipedia

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    Recirculating aquaculture systems (RAS) are used in home aquaria and for fish production where water exchange is limited and the use of biofiltration is required to reduce ammonia toxicity. [1] Other types of filtration and environmental control are often also necessary to maintain clean water and provide a suitable habitat for fish. [2]

  6. Homer Glen woman elected to Illinois Farm Bureau Board ... - AOL

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    Homer Glen has shifted from being a rural community to more of a suburban town, Matejcak said, which has changed the farming experience. “Around here, 30 some years ago, we were the middle of ...

  7. Lake Shelbyville - Wikipedia

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    Lake Shelbyville is a reservoir located in Shelby County, Illinois and Moultrie County, Illinois created by damming the Kaskaskia River at Shelbyville, Illinois. The lake's normal surface pool is 11,100 acres (44.9 km 2) at an elevation of 183 meters (600.4 ft). The area that surrounds the lake is the Shelbyville State Fish and Wildlife Area.

  8. Category:Fish farming - Wikipedia

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  9. Fisheries and Illinois Aquaculture Center - Wikipedia

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    The logo of the Fisheries and Illinois Aquaculture Center at SIUC. The Fisheries and Illinois Aquaculture Center at Southern Illinois University Carbondale (SIUC) was founded by Dr. William M. Lewis, Senior in 1950. The Center is administratively housed in the Graduate School.